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发帖数: 1743 | 1 The Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors will pay the federal
government a combined $300 million in penalties as part of a settlement for
overstating vehicle fuel-economy standards on 1.2 vehicles, the Justice
Department and the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday.
The penalty is the largest ever for a violation of the Clean Air Act,
government officials said.
Under the agreement, the automakers will pay $100 million in fines and
forfeit an estimated $200 million in greenhouse gas emissions credits, which
auto companies earn by building vehicles with lower emissions than are
required by law.
“This type of conduct quite simply will not be tolerated,” Attorney
General Eric H. Holder Jr., said at a joint news conference at the Justice
Department with Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. administrator. The Justice
Department, he added, “will never rest or waver in our determination to
take action against any company that engages in such activities."
Ms. McCarthy said that the action reinforced her agency’s determination to
uphold the Clean Air Act. “Businesses that play by the rules shouldn’t
have to compete with those breaking the law,” she said.
In 2012, Hyundai and Kia, which are both owned by the Hyundai Motor Group,
admitted that they had overstated the fuel economy of vehicles sold in the
United States over the previous two years. The admission came after an E.P.A
. investigation into consumer complaints that their cars were
underperforming the official mileage estimates on the window stickers of new
cars. Although few drivers achieve the mileage claimed on the stickers, the
government requires automakers to conduct standardized tests to calculate
the figures so that buyers can more easily compare the fuel efficiency of
different models.
At the time, both Hyundai and Kia apologized for what they called “
procedural errors” in testing that resulted in incorrect mileage stickers
on some of their most popular models, including the Hyundai Elantra and Kia
Rio. The companies continue to say that the misstatement of fuel mileage was
inadvertent and that they did not intentionally mislead customers.
In an emailed statement on Monday, Chris Hosford, a spokesman for Hyundai,
wrote: “To be clear, Hyundai’s view is that this was an honest mistake and
there was a lack of clarity/broad latitude in E.P.A. rules and guidance
that resulted in the issues outlined by the government.”
The settlement comes as the Obama administration has used the Clean Air Act
to create and enforce new regulations aimed at reining in planet-warming
pollution. In 2009, the E.P.A. released new fuel economy standards requiring
automakers to aggressively increase average fuel mileage of passenger
vehicles in order to cut carbon emissions from tailpipes.
On Monday environmentalists praised the penalties on the two automakers.
“For many years, E.P.A. has enforced the Clean Air Act to make sure cars
are as clean as they are advertised,'’ said Frank O’Donnell, president of
the Group Clean Air Watch. “It is very encouraging to see that E.P.A. plans
to make sure that climate-related emissions must also be as advertised.”
E.P.A. officials said they discovered the problems with the Hyundai and Kia
vehicles in the course of auditing fuel-economy manufacturing programs. They
concluded that the Korean automakers’ testing of fuel economy technologies
included procedures that led to inaccurately high fuel-economy ratings for
vehicles including Hyundai’s Accent, Elantra, Veloster and Santa Fe
vehicles and Kia’s Rio and Soul vehicles.
That testing was done entirely in laboratories in Korea, government
officials said. They said that as part of the settlement, the companies
would pay to build a separate, American-based center for testing vehicle
fuel economy. | J***J
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: The Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors will pay the federal
: government a combined $300 million in penalties as part of a settlement for
: overstating vehicle fuel-economy standards on 1.2 vehicles, the Justice
: Department and the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday.
: The penalty is the largest ever for a violation of the Clean Air Act,
: government officials said.
: Under the agreement, the automakers will pay $100 million in fines and
: forfeit an estimated $200 million in greenhouse gas emissions credits, which
: auto companies earn by building vehicles with lower emissions than are
: required by law.
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